Marianne Baillie

Mrs. Baillie's first contribution to literature was a small volume, entitled Guy of Warwick, a Legende, and other Poems, Kingsbury, 1817.

Some of the poems in this work were afterwards reproduced in a volume privately printed in London in 1825, and "not published", entitled Trifles in Verse.

It was from Twickenham that the Baillies set out for a continental tour, crossing the Channel from Dover to Calais on 9 August 1818, and returning 8 October following.

John Trevor, who had been British minister at Turin from 1783 to 1798; of whom Mrs. Baillie spoke after his death as a "paternal friend".

There she wrote a series of letters to her mother, afterwards published, with an inscription to the Earl of Chichester,[4] "to whose kindness they owe their existence," in two volumes, entitled Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, 8vo, London, 1824; second edition 1825.